Exactly how honest are you on your blogs?  That is not a rhetorical question and that is not because someone lied to me or I caught someone in a lie.  This is a truly honest question!  People do make things up, don't they?  Sometimes I wonder do they really feel this way? How do I know that is the truth?  Why should they lie?  I guess I have no choice but to take them at face value, we all do right?   But I'm getting away from my point in this article, I ...

 I have lived in a gated apartment community, for quite a while now. We have gotten to know some of our neighbors over the years.  Some are really nice and some are not so nice!  Those not so nice ones we stay away from.  There are some that are users, meaning they are more interested in what they can get from you, rather than the friendship; and there are some that are the "Hi, how are you, nice weather" type; as well as those that you don't mind doing a favor for,...

Some of my sidebar links work, some do not.  I have updated the ones that just doesn't seem to work and yet I get the same thing when I click on one or two of the links....I don't get the blog site I want to read! Please fix this or let me know what I'm  not doing to make it right?   Having the sidebar is the easiest way for me to find some of my favs and it has been hard to for a while now.  

    It's embedded in our memories a day that will never be forgotten let us continue to pray for this great nation of ours our politics might devide us but our loyalty shall always unite us!   In memory of that fateful day, I add a link to a poem I wrote last year.

Are you spoilt?    Have you become so used to the basic luxuries of life that without them, you would not be able to exist?  What, if anything, do you consider Essentials in or to your life? [i.e., Except that which you MUST have in order to exist - Oxygen]   What are your basic luxuries?   I have been following the weather and all the flooding and after effects of the different thurnderstorms, hurricanes, and also remembering other conditions, ...

I just finished watching the movie P.S. I Love you .  It was the most beautiful, beyootiful movie I've seen in a while!  It will be one of my favs!   Have you seen it?  If not, please watch it.  It is sad, but it is so beyootiful!  My friends told me that I would cry, cause they did, even my guy friends, and they were so right!   I like that warm, beautiful feeling of being in love.  That warmth you feel with the knowledge that you are loved.&...

I wonder sometimes when did we get into such a state of environmental neglect?  So much so that our world has begun to show the effects of our neglect, or is it really the years of our growth?  Then I wonder, is this not a natural occurence though?  Because as humans progress in life, we learn to do everything better so as to have a simpler life, to make our lives better, for living, how can that be wrong?    What we have been doing and what we continue to do does ...

Remember that vehicle I mentioned in one of my blog?   The vehicle that we have been waitin gon from my BIL who was having it repaired at our expense because we were taking it off his hand?  Well, finally after upteenth false "yes it is ready"  We went to pick it up from him.    I started my day with being in the dentist's chair getting a deep root planing, no fun!  I felt like one of those movie stars while at the pharmacy because I had to have guaze in ...

I never knew I couldn't carve a straight line, until now!lol!  I suck at the Xacto!  We're putting together some binders for our annual plans.  The tabs were too large for the 2-inch binders we decided to use and we're trying to get around just trimming them down instead of wading through the computer files to shrink them and re-print. There I am cutting and trimming....and messing up!    Those things are sharp by the way!  So I gave in and decided to just re-do ...

CNN is repeating a special report it aired a month or so ago, Black in America.  It will take a close look on some of the issues that affect black Americans.   It will give an in depth look into the lives of some blacks who are doing the right thing, living their lives and who defy the stereo types of what being black in America is.   Someone said it is not just a story about blacks in this country it is a story about Americans, (who happen to be black), because wha...

  We all know the realities each of face each and every day.  We have to take care of the basics first, rent or mortgage, utilities, food, other payments...and maybe fun?!  Regardless of the difficulties that is going on in most people's lives, they are still making time for fun with the family! If my neighborhood is anything to go by, I would say yes!  Take us for example, we have managed to see a few movies this summer, have an eat out here and there, despite everythin...

 And they lost! Three residents of the Greek Aegean island of Lesbos doesn't like it that homosexual women are referred to as Lesbos or Lesbians!  They feel that if someone were not born on their island, they are not a Lesbo or Lesbian and so the residents took this matter to the Greek Courts, to have the courts declare them right and give them justice in having those two words banned unless it was in referrence to a native Lesbo or Lesbian....their Courts didn't b...

Sometimes it saddens me, the hate and the distrusts that continues to separate us.  It is sometimes difficult to read some of the things that are said and to listen to what people say.   Things are said without realizing what is being said.  Do they understand what they are really talking about?  I guess not, otherwise it would not be said in the manner it is, and there would be a better coming together of the minds, not just a load of disparage ...

My husband called me into the bedroom, his favorite place to watch the television from telling me to come quick .....I didn't hear him clearly and entered the bedroom to hear the news of Tim Russert's death. To say I was shocked was putting it mildly .  I didn't know the man, but I knew him, know what I mean?!  I felt that I knew him becuase I've watched him for so long, listened to him for so many years, enjoyed his humor, his opinions, his fairness.  I felt he treated e...

Being prepared to do something means being successful.  Failure to prepare means you are not successful! I know you can't always be prepared for everything, every little details that happens in your life.  But for the ones that you can be prepared for, doing that prep work is always a good thing!